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By Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
- Source
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 · Chapter II, p. 27
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- Internet Archive (University of California scan of the 1891 book edition, London and New York: Ward, Lock)
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From Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (London and New York: Ward, Lock, 1891), the book edition with the added chapters and the Preface. The line is spoken by the character Lord Henry Wotton. It is in the second chapter.